Grief

Hospice Care: Help During End Stages of Life

One day while I was working at my newspaper job, the phone rang. It was the head nurse at Dad’s nursing home....

The mission of hospice providers is to help people live their last months or weeks of life in the most comfortable, dignified...

While death rarely brings pleasant feelings, from time to time we’ll see a story about death go viral on the Internet because...

Many caregivers watch their loved ones endure a long, slow decline that will eventually end in death. As they age, we grieve...

Many of us feel honored to provide care for our aging parents or ill spouses, but this honor can also present serious...

Dear Carol: My mom has advanced lung disease as well as late-stage Alzheimer’s. We know that there are no cures for either...

When the paperwork was finally signed to get hospice care for my dad, I was grateful. There would now be a routine...

When my mother died in a local nursing home, my “career” of visiting this exceptional facility nearly every day for almost 15...

They say hindsight is 20/20. But things from the past that may seem “clear” to you now can still be distorted by...

Dear Carol: I’m crushed and uncertain how to move forward. My wife, 74, has spent years battling cancer with some success and...